Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 250
Xing Shao left Luoyang and returned home in despair.

Zeng Gui was the head of the general's mansion, and according to the usual practice, he started out as a governor, but in the end he ended up like this, which is enough to alert the group of officials: the word loyalty does not only focus on the word loyalty, but should be honest to the owner.

Luoyang people are very forgetful, and no one cares about a lost person in the officialdom anymore, but they are very curious about Cui Shan.

They even thought that Gao Cheng would deliberately let go of the water, fulfilling a good talk about saving his father during the Beijing test.

You see, it is clear that they are ignoring the laws of the country and condoning criminals. In their eyes, the focus is on a filial son saving his father, which can still be called a good talk.

This is the difference between ancient times and modern times. Most of the things that have something to do with filial piety can be blurred.

Since the beginning of winter, the weather has become colder. Gao Huan was tortured by a headache in Jinyang. Gao Cheng learned the news and began to pay attention to his behavior. He even stopped playing games with Er Zhu Ying'e.

It is too filial for the father to linger on the sick bed and the son to sing and feast.

Ever since Gao Cheng became a father, he has become more and more eager to establish a persona of a filial son, not only for Gao Huan, but also for his own children.

There was an endless stream of messengers traveling between Luoyang and Jinyang, all of which sent Xiao Gao Wang's thoughts and care for his father.

And this winter, Yu Wentai once again raised his troops to the north to attack Yubi.

After all, as long as the jade bi is still in the hands of the Gao family, it can be used as a foundation in the next spring, and troops will be sent to harass, and the entire east of Luoshui River and north of Weishui River will be turned into barren land.

However, Yubi has been continuously strengthened in the past year, the city is solid, the defense and food are sufficient, and the tower defense master Wang Sizheng is in the fort.

In the past two years, the Eastern Wei Dynasty allowed Yu Wentai to come and go freely, which really made it difficult for the main force of Jinyang to look around.

Sending troops to Yubi from Chang'an, and sending troops from Jinyang, the loss is not the same.

In 536, Kansai suffered a severe drought, but the natural disaster was merciless, and it would not stop at the border of the Eastern and Western Weis.

It was also in this year that Bing, Si, Fen, Jian, Jin, Jiang, Qin and other states in the east of the Eastern Wei Dynasty suffered from drought, and the drought lasted for a whole year.

Had Gao Huan and Gao Cheng not used grain relief from Henan and Hebei, the situation in Hedong would not be much better than in Guanzhong.

The drought in the east of the river was relieved in the summer of 537, but the cultivation had already been missed.

From the autumn harvest in 536 to this year, that is, the autumn harvest in 538, Gao Cheng has supplied enough food for Hedong for two years. During this period, Gao Huan led an army of 20 to the west and suffered a disastrous defeat. toss.

This is also the reason why the Eastern Wei Dynasty had to recuperate after the defeat of the Western Expedition in 537.

Since the right to mint coins was brought back to the central government, and after Buddhism and Taoism searched, the Eastern Wei government was not short of money.

But the problem is that money cannot directly produce food, and the relationship between Eastern Wei and neighboring countries cannot buy food with money.

In the past two years, in order to provide relief to Hedong, the storage in the official warehouse was exhausted, but Gao Cheng still did not start with the private storage of grain, he was worried that the price of grain would be difficult to suppress.

Gao Huan had previously proposed to go west again, in addition to raising taxes, the idea was to forcibly expropriate the people's grain reserves, but Gao Cheng dissuaded him.

Xiao Gao Wang had coins in his hands, but no rice grains, so he reformed the way of distributing military salaries and official salaries, changing the form of rice grains in the past to directly distributing coins.

Fortunately, the general's five baht money is of sufficient quality and quantity, and is highly recognized by the people, otherwise it would really not be able to appease the soldiers and officials.

However, a large number of coins circulated among the people, which inevitably caused serious inflation and currency depreciation.

This is also one of the reasons why Gao Cheng carried out fiscal and taxation reforms, changing the original household adjustment from cloth to money to pay head tax, in order to collect excess coins to the central government, stabilize prices, and at the same time, in the case of currency depreciation, It can also reduce the burden on the people.

After the autumn harvest this year, Hedong no longer needs to rely on supplies from Henan and Hebei, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty can finally operate normally.

But because Gao Huan had a headache in winter, he didn't want to look around.

In 538, Gao Cheng did not do much. He even went to Jinyang once at the beginning of the year, and stayed in Luoyang for the rest of the year, and did not make drastic reforms.

Last year, there were still many years of accumulated support. Until this year's autumn harvest, it will be a real hard time, but fortunately, all difficulties will be solved with the autumn harvest in Hedong.

This year, Gao Huan's concubine Shi Youniang gave birth to a son, the tenth son, and Gao Huan named him Gao Shi. However, Gao Laoshi in history entered Gao Cheng's house because of his biological mother Xiao Erzhu. also no longer exists.

The New Year's Day in the eighth year of Taichang (539) arrived as scheduled. Gao Cheng asked for honors for his younger brothers. Yuan Shan issued an edict, conferring Gao Jun, the third son of Gao Huan at the age of seven, as Duke of Yong'an County, and his fourth son at the age of seven. His son Gaoyan is the Duke of Pingyang County, the fifth son Gao Xun is the Duke of Changle County at the age of six, the sixth son Gao Yan is the Duke of Changshan County at the age of four, the seventh son Gao Huan is the Duke of Pingyuan County at the age of four, and the third son at the age of three is the Duke of Changle County. The eighth son, Gao Yu, is the Duke of Zhangwu County, and the ninth son, Gao Zhan, who is about to turn two years old, is the Duke of Changguang County.

In addition, when he was sent to Luoyang many years ago, he was awarded the title of Gao Yang, the Duke of Taiyuan. Among the Gao family members, only Gao Cheng and the newborn Gao Shi have not yet received the title.

That night, the Bohai Prince's Mansion set up a banquet, and Gao Cheng gave a big banquet for the guests to celebrate the conferment of his younger brothers.

A few days later, Gao Huan sent a messenger, ordering him to inspect the border between Liang and Wei, and Gao Huan himself will return to Yecheng, Hebei for a temporary stay.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, everything was ready. Gao Cheng was still led by the guard general Wang Shiliang, and Sizhou Muke and Zhu Hunyuan led the troops to guard the Gyeonggi area. province, while Zhongshu Province was handed over to the new Zhongshu Commander Sima Ziru.

In order to transfer his father-in-law Lu Daoqian away from Youzhou, after discussing with Gao Huan, Gao Cheng and Gao Huan decided to exchange the post of governor of Bingzhou. Sima Ziru, the former governor of Bingzhou, was sent to Luoyang after Duan Rong died of illness to succeed Zhongshu. As a post, he assists Gao Cheng, the supervisor of Zhongshu, in handling affairs.

After Gao Cheng arranged all the affairs in Luoyang, he brought his family and a group of brothers, escorted by the Gyeonggi army stationed in Luoyang and his personal guards, and set off for the south.

He never thought of keeping Gao Yang in Luoyang as a test to see if the other party would make friends with ministers privately.

Because this kind of approach is meaningless at all, no matter how Gao Yang behaves, Gao Cheng will not be at ease, so why bother to give Gao Yang a chance to make mistakes.

Now that Gao Yang is getting older, while Gao Cheng provides him with a rich material life, he also disciplines him strictly.

After the showdown between the two brothers in Jinyang last year, Gao Yang no longer pretended to be stupid, but he still remained cautious and did not want to give Gao Cheng a chance to make trouble.

The two are insulated from their brothers and sisters, but they can live in peace.

For the rest of the brothers, Gao Cheng is also very caring, he specially hired famous teachers, and invited them to teach in the east hall of the Bohai Prince's Mansion to teach his younger brothers.

　There are still 4000, I will think about it carefully, and everyone will watch it in the morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)